Month: February 2013

• Failure Notifications for Rake Tasks on the Heroku Scheduler

  For users of Heroku, the Scheduler add-on is a convenient and cheap way to run scheduled batch jobs. However, you get what you pay for: it’s a little bare bones. For example, it doesn’t support any sort of notifications when a job fails, a major issue unless you compulsively check your logs. For Rails apps…

  Nik Haldimann

  February 19, 2013

  Ruby

• Multiple Delegates in Ruby

  I found that, out of the box, delegating method calls to multiple objects is not straight-forward in Ruby. There are two modules in the Ruby standard library that cover most delegation use cases: The delegate module lets you easily delegate all methods to another object, and the forwardable module does the same for some explicitly enumerated methods. Both…

  Nik Haldimann

  February 1, 2013

  Ruby